Content Bridges Ken Doctor pans Tribune COO
Randy Michaels' plan to put more charts, graphs, maps and lists in his papers: "Wow. Great solution for 1992 perhaps, 10 years after USA Today turned the newspaper world, Pleasantville-like, from black and white to color. The problem with that is that USA Today is essentially flat last several years in circulation .... The biggest innovation of the last couple of years isn't the color weather map on USA Today's back page; it's Google's ability to map everything and anything, instantly -- at the customer's fingertips and choice, 24/7."
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Tribune's move is "a strategy, basically, of gradually closing down" (NYT) >
Tribune's initiatives "likely to be perversely counterproductive" (Mutter)